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Kazaa Loses P2P Crown To Edonkey

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the I-still-miss-napster dept.

I(rispee_I(reme writes "According to the network population stats at slyck, FastTrack (home of Kazaa) is no longer the most populous filesharing network. Top honors now belong to edonkey, a network of German origins. (Most edonkey users connect with emule, a gpl client for Windows)."

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  1. More Soulseek by SilentChris · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Amongst the kids (which I'm no longer) Soulseek is the P2P of choice. Partially because it's so easy to find a friend's files.

    eDonkey has its place. I use it to download MST3K episodes from www.dapcentral.org. It's slow, but I've never had a single corrupt download. When you're talking 4.7 GB (in some cases) it's pretty damn good.

  2. Re:Got plenty of time? eDonkey may rock. by xQx · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Parent is dead right.

    eD2k rewards people for uploading, but seems to reward people for sitting in queue better.

    The way to effectively get files with ed2k is with a 10GB queue of content which you just forget about for a week or two. -- It's a bit of a culture change after kazaa and napster where you immediatly start downloading files. ... but I suppose that was bound to happen when you move from exchanging 4mb mp3 files, to 4GB vob archives :)

  3. It's not a leaching network! by node159 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That would be because it's not a leaching network. You get back what you put in, if you want to leech your not welcome here.

    The clients have been designed for fairness and _sharing_ rather than grab as much as you can and then go offline.

    DC on the other hand is this mentality, you can keep your leaching corrupt network.

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